Vladimir Putin Calls For Jews To Emigrate To Russia Amid Increasing Anti-Semitic Violence In Europe

[Purveyor]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited Jews to emigrate to Russia amid an increase in anti-Semitic violence in Europe. At a meeting between Putin and members of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) in the Kremlin, Putin was told that discrimination suffered by Jews in Europe was worse than at any time since World War Two.

"The position of Jews in Europe today is the worst since the end of World War Two. Jews [are] gripped by fear and there is a very real new exodus of Jews from Europe," EJC President Vyasechlav Moshe Kantor told Putin, Russia Today reported.

He blamed the increase in attacks on the rise of the European far-right in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, and attacks by Islamic extremists. "For example, the emigration flow from France, which only yesterday seemed so safe, is bigger than from Ukraine, [which is] engulfed in civil conflict. Why are the Jews fleeing from Europe?" asked Kantor. "They run...not only because of terrorist acts against our communities in Toulouse, Brussels, Paris, Copenhagen, now in Marseilles, but because of the fear to just appear in the streets of European cities."

There have been a series of anti-Semitic attacks in France in recent years, including the murder of four Jews in a kosher supermarket in January, 2015 by Islamic terrorist Amedy Coulibaly.

Putin said that Jews should return to Russia: "Let them [Jews] come to us then," adding that "during the Soviet period they were leaving the country, and now they should return."

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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/president-vladimir-putin-calls-jews-emigrate-russia-amid-increasing-anti-semitic-violence-1539111

[elleng]

1. Right, we'll run right back!

[DFW]

2. Better send them free one-way tickets

If there's a return segment, after a week in Putin's Russia, close to 100% of them will make use of it.

[LeftyMom]

3. .

[area51]

4. Say what?

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. The rise of the European far-right - funded by Russia

By “the Danes” who supported the Russian idea of the Crimea “referendum”, Rykov might have meant the far right Danish People’s Party. The day after the “referendum”, the party’s foreign affairs spokesman Søren Espersen declared that they should respect “the will of the people of Crimea” who “wanted to become part of Russia”.
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Chauprade helped the Russians build contacts with many other Western far right politicians. At the end of May 2014, Chauprade participated, as the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger exposed, in a secret meeting in Vienna convened by Malofeev. A number of European far right politicians, including representatives of the National Front, Freedom Party of Austria and Bulgarian Ataka party, participated in the secret meeting in Vienna too. Chauprade also sat in the presidium, next to Malofeev, Mizulina, Russian religious leaders and CEO of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, of the eighth meeting of the anti-LGBT World Congress of Families that took place in Moscow in September 2014.

The same month saw that Schaffhauser’s fundraising mission proved to be a success. As Mediapart discovered, the National Front secured a €40 million loan from the First Czech-Russian Bank. Despite the name, this bank belongs almost exclusively to the Russians, namely to the companies and holdings owned by Gennady Timchenko, a major Russian businessman from Putin’s inner circle and a co-founder of Cyprus-registered Gunvor Group Ltd. that, as US officials suspected, hosted Putin’s own investments. (Following the Russian annexation of Crimea, the US sanctioned Timchenko and he sold his share in Gunvor to the company’s Swedish co-founder Torbjörn Törnqvist.) Timchenko, too, has French connections: in 2011, he was elected chairman of the Economic Council of the Franco-Russian Chamber of Commerce (CCIFR), an important instrument of the Kremlin’s “soft power” in France. In 2013, Timchenko shared chairmanship of the Economic Council with Total’s CEO Christophe de Margerie, but the latter was killed in an airplane accident in Moscow in October 2014, so now Timchenko apparently remains the only chairman of the CCIFR’s Economic Council.

For his service to the National Front, Schaffhauser, who also became an MEP in May 2014, was paid a consultancy fee of €140.000. As a sign of his loyalty to the Kremlin, Schaffhauser took part in the monitoring mission of the “parliamentary elections” in self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk “People’s Republics” on the territories occupied by pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine. The international observation mission was organized by the same Eurasian Observatory for Democracy & Elections and the European Centre for Geopolitical Analysis that invited observers to the Crimea “referendum”. As the Rue89Strasbourg website reports, Schaffhauser will visit Donetsk in May 2015, allegedly to observe the implementation of the Minsk II agreement. He will be accompanied by representatives of the French NGO “Urgence Enfants d’Ukraine” that was established in September 2014 by a member of the French far right Identitarian Bloc Alain Fragny, and looks like a money-laundering operation.

http://www.interpretermag.com/russia-and-front-national-following-the-money/

[Monk06]

6. Vlad Putin, Super Troll LOL I'm in yur head messin wit yur thots

[Marrah_G]

7. I really don't get the anti-semitism in Europe

I can sort of understand where anti-muslim sentiment stems from due to the recent rise in migration and clashes of culture. But Jewish culture is not new or different from other western cultures.

[LuvNewcastle]

8. I saw Fiddler on the Roof, and

I really don't think that would be a good idea.

[JudyM]

9. Many fled from Russia because of him.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017309934